Candle in a Dark Time

by Virginia Stuart

It is 1943 and the Germans control Denmark. Regine Lund lives quietly with her sisters at Dragentaarn, their family home outside a small Danish coastal town. The occupation has been unusually benign until the Lunds accidentally learn a terrible secret: Within the next few days the Nazis will round up all Danish Jews and send them to their concentration camps to await "the final solution." What will Regine do-what can she do?-to help the people who have shared her history and her life? Based on true events and little-known stories, Virginia Stuart's fast-moving novel tells a tale of immeasurable courage in the face of overwhelming odds and pays tribute to the Danes who quietly risked everything to save their Jewish neighbors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466340657
• ISBN13: 9781466340657
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Very highly recommended reading

Very highly recommended reading, Virginia Stuart's Candle in a Dark Time is a deftly written novel set during the German military occupation of Denmark in the darkest days of Word War II. It is the story of the Danish Rescue of Jews that took place at great risk to themselves by large numbers of the Danish population and became part of the Danish Resistance. Candle In A Dark Time tells the story of four sisters who risk everything to save their Jewish neighbors from being rounded up and send to the Nazi death camps. Although a work of fiction, author Virginia Stuart is absolutely accurate in her background information and depiction of the harrowing risks and sacrifices that the Danish populace underwent in their attempts to protect their Jewish friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens from the Nazi holocaust

A Page Turner-Can't put it down!

This excellent book tells the little known story of the amazing rescue of the Danish Jews during WWII. The Danish people took it upon themselves to help their friends and neighbors, who just happened to be Jewish, to escape to freedom when it was discovered that the Nazi occupiers planned to round everybody up at their synagogues on Rosh Hoshana and ship them off to the death camps. The action is exciting and constant, the story engaging and the characters wonderful. Though the page for this book has a link to romance:historical, it is not a romance. (However, Virginia Stuart is the mother of romance writer Anne Stuart.) If you know Steven Spielberg, this would make a fabulous movie!